Booking date for 2017 bookings
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I find being able tobook all year in December far less of a faff
Easy......why don't you tell us again about how many nights you book and how long your breaks away are?
Always enjoy reading it, and I haven't seen it for several days now......
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I find being able tobook all year in December far less of a faff
Easy......why don't you tell us again about how many nights you book and how long your breaks away are?
Always enjoy reading it, and I haven't seen it for several days now......
It's me age you know.
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I find the whole process for advanced bookings a nightmare as many sites seem to book up so quickly for weekends and then at the last min spaces become available.. Why doesn't the club just make a booking payable up front and unless you cancel a number
of weeks before not days with little penalty... This last year I was only able to pre book 1 weekend in advance, longer breaks were with sites not part of the CC and I had to pay in advance. Love CC sites when I can get on them but if I can't book date and
sites I want this could be my last year as a frustrated member unfortunately.0 -
Why doesn't the club just make a booking payable up front and unless you cancel a number of weeks before not days with little penalty.
Let me see. Pay in full foor advanced bookings. I suspect that I would get little change out of £2,500. Oh wouldn't that be super!
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Good afternoon,
UK Bookings for travel dates, after the 17th March 2017, can be made on Wednesday 7th December from 08.00.
Kind regards .
Kimberley
Write your comments here...I have never found booking on Frenzy Day a problem , I like many members book my entire years sites , full weeks & weekends , this year will be no different .
If you want certain sites & certain dates that's what as to be done & anyone who says different just can't be trying or bothered , waiting won't get it done
As for it being unfair or only advantageous to people who don't work , this is my first year in retirement & I never had any issues when I did work just remember internet booking is available 24 /7 to every member
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Can someone please tell me the reason the CC allow people to book a site then cancel a few days before they are supposed to to go. Thus blocking the chance of a holiday to everyone else.
P.S This is a genuine question becuase I dont see the logic both from the Clubs perspective and the perspective of other members
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'Other members'? Does that mean you've joined, FB?
No one here is likely to be able to tell you why CC do anything. You'd need to ask the Club direct but I think you already know that.
How does one member making and then cancelling a booking block someone else from having a holiday when all members have an equal chance of booking? You employ strange logic there.
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Can someone please tell me the reason the CC allow people to book a site then cancel a few days before they are supposed to to go. Thus blocking the chance of a holiday to everyone else.
P.S This is a genuine question becuase I dont see the logic both from the Clubs perspective and the perspective of other members
Perhaps a deposit system may make some members more committed to their Bookings...
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The CC used to have a deposit system Micromort. They obviously decided that it was not a good idea. I, for one, like the present system of no deposit. I have decided on 22 sites for next year. 18 of them are club sites and hence no deposit. I suspect that
I shall pay about £100 (or more) in deposits for those 4. If the CC demanded, say, £20 deposit on each of my bookings I would not feel any more or less commited to honouring them.0 -
ET, I don't think the deposits would concern any of the committed Travellers like yourself & others like you
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If I was a weekender and booked a pitch for a Friday and Saturday with, for example, a £20 deposit the loss of the deposit would bot concern me. After all I would probably still be in pocket. Imagine forecast 2 days of wind, sleet, hail and I cancel. I loose
£20 but probably save £50 in site fees, £10 in coffees out, £25 in fuel. I am suddenly £65 better off!0 -
If I was a weekender and booked a pitch for a Friday and Saturday with, for example, a £20 deposit the loss of the deposit would bot concern me. After all I would probably still be in pocket. Imagine forecast 2 days of wind, sleet, hail and I cancel. I loose
£20 but probably save £50 in site fees, £10 in coffees out, £25 in fuel. I am suddenly £65 better off!I do love an optimist ET
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Each to their own, obviously, but, personally I can't think of anything worse than booking a "honeypot" CC site when it's going to be full, even more so if it involves taking part in frenzy day madness!
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If you want a 'honeypot' site they will usually be full when you arrive hence why they are descibed as 'honepot'. Actually there are none that I wish to use.
I can never understand why anybody considers booking start day to be a day of madness. I have 4 sites to book by phone and 18 club site bookings. I shan't be frenzied. I will sit down quietly, probably with my second coffee of the day, and book
the sites. I expect to take around 5 mins per site on average. Can't see any madness in that. Seems very civilised to me0 -
Each to their own, obviously, but, personally I can't think of anything worse than booking a "honeypot" CC site when it's going to be full, even more so if it involves taking part in frenzy day madness!
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If you want a 'honeypot' site they will usually be full when you arrive hence why they are descibed as 'honepot'. Actually there are none that I wish to use.
I can never understand why anybody considers booking start day to be a day of madness. I have 4 sites to book by phone and 18 club site bookings. I shan't be frenzied. I will sit down quietly, probably with my second coffee of the day, and book
the sites. I expect to take around 5 mins per site on average. Can't see any madness in that. Seems very civilised to meWrite your comments here...You must admit ET not everyone is organised as you are.
To be told you have to book a honeypot site (Broadway) on a Bank Holiday weekend for a family wedding,when you are out of the country on the booking frenzy day does make this system slightly stressful.
Moreton in Marsh was a second option.
Frenzy day is like marmite you even love it or hate it.
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Each to their own, obviously, but, personally I can't think of anything worse than booking a "honeypot" CC site when it's going to be full, even more so if it involves taking part in frenzy day madness!
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Depends on the site, Baltic Wharf is almost always totally full. So the only difference is the number of people per unit, more kids at weekends and in holidays. However, with sites like that you are going for its location, not to sit about outside your caravan.
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Each to their own, obviously, but, personally I can't think of anything worse than booking a "honeypot" CC site when it's going to be full, even more so if it involves taking part in frenzy day madness!
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Depends on the site, Baltic Wharf is almost always totally full. So the only difference is the number of people per unit, more kids at weekends and in holidays. However, with sites like that you are going for its location, not to sit about outside your caravan.
We've got into BW twice now. The first time we booked on the Sunday before arriving on the Friday. The next visit over February half term was booked online the following week.
We got into Chatsworth the first week of the school summer holidays, booking 3 weeks beforehand.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I could imagine frenzy day is bandied about by all those block bookers who cancel in the allotted time without penalty and so don't show in any data issued by CC, and ensure frenzy day happens
In the interests of research I may be engaging in frenzy day if only to dispel any conspiracy theories
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Each to their own, obviously, but, personally I can't think of anything worse than booking a "honeypot" CC site when it's going to be full, even more so if it involves taking part in frenzy day madness!
Agree
Depends on the site, Baltic Wharf is almost always totally full. So the only difference is the number of people per unit, more kids at weekends and in holidays. However, with sites like that you are going for its location, not to sit about outside your caravan.
We've got into BW twice now. The first time we booked on the Sunday before arriving on the Friday. The next visit over February half term was booked online the following week.
We got into Chatsworth the first week of the school summer holidays, booking 3 weeks beforehand.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I could imagine frenzy day is bandied about by all those block bookers who cancel in the allotted time without penalty and so don't show in any data issued by CC, and ensure frenzy day happens
In the interests of research I may be engaging in frenzy day if only to dispel any conspiracy theories
...We only ever book any site on "frenzy"if it is one of the very busy sites and we need a specific date, and if not done may mean having to look for a cancelation
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Only the Club can give you the reason but there has been plenty of discussion about it if you search the threads.
peedee
Just to save you searching, plenty of previous comment for you to peruse
Suggest a better booking process (awaiting comment from the Club)
Cancellation Policy - thoughts
Booking Statistics ( supplied by the Club)
Good morning, as promised I have some more figures from you. These figures were correct at the beginning of November and differ from those in the December magazine AMM report as these figures were to September. Hopefully these may help dispel some of the myths around peak booking day with actually very few of the overall pitches being sold on that day.
- 18,000 members booked on the day – less than 5% of the total membership
- 69,000 bookings were made on the day
- 38 members made over 10 bookings on Peak booking day however in general they have fulfilled these bookings. Most members only make 1 or 2.
- The average number of bookings per member was 3.5. Those who booked appreciably more are being monitored
- The number of bookings on the day represents less than 13% of the total bookings in 2011 and less than 10% of the total availability for the year.
- The number of cancellations has dropped by over 14,000 since 2011 and late cancellations by over 7500 bookings (this varies from the report in the December magazine as those were figures to September). There have been approximately 52,000 late cancellations in 2012.
- Total no shows for 2012 are just short of 4,000
- The average duration of a stay is 5.5 days i.e. more than a weekend
- A member can’t book more than one site for the same time
10. Only a handful of sites sell certain popular dates out completely The most popular sites include Chatsworth, Black Knowl, Southport, Hillhead,Rowntree Park and the New Forest.
11. We have suspended 20 members during 2012 due to the new late cancellation policy
Natasha
Further comment with some cancellation figures for 4 popular sites are at
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The Club isn't going to change so either join in and do as others tdo or look elsewhere
peedee
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The Club isn't going to change so either join in and do as others tdo or look elsewhere
yes, would add to that 100%, even 200%. Good post Peedee
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I had to pay up front for a 5 night stay at a site ealier this year £150!
dont you pay upfront for all your CC stays?....we, and every other user, does so
some 'other places' allow you to pay once you've decided you're going to leave
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